new map generator

[Folket]

I guess your map generator do generate all paths that you may move along, to my knowledge that should not be easy to generate in Paintshop.

[paradoxharbinger]

yes, all provinces will have their neighbours generated. it will make all of the files necessary for a map to be playable without being edited.

[Cainehill]

Cool - the seed function could be real handy, _if_ the executable file is small enough that people can download it easily. Hrm - if it's going to be single-platform that'll reduce that benefit, since a number of people play Dom2 on Linux or Apple as well as Windoze.

[paradoxharbinger]

i've given the multi-platform thing a little thought, but i don't think there is much i can do for it since i'm not at all familiar with the other two api's. maybe after i get the windows version out some one else could make an interface for mac/linux.

as far as the size of the program file goes, right now it's clocking in at 144kb and shouldn't need more than 100kb for data files. the size of the program probly won't grow to more than 200kb.

[paradoxharbinger]

oh, found this in the old version of the mapgen. i've been working on this thing for a while and i've started it over a few times, here's one of the maps that an old version generated. this is the quality (graphically at least) that i'm aiming at for the initial release. eventually i want graphics to be able to be chosen by the user. i will also not that the algorithms used to generate this particular map bear little resemblance with the algorithms i am using now.

[Agrajag]

That actually looks pretty cool. And it would be even cooler if we got to customize colors as well as tree/mountain sprites.

Oh, and what geography does the pinkish color indicate?

[paradoxharbinger]

think the pinkish stuff was wasteland